skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their journalist were trained at BBC. It is funny that BBC exactly fits your definition :-)

BTW both have very high standards and make excellent journalism.

I'd like to see examples of bad Al Jazeera journalism instead of just attacks to Qatar monarchy.
They will not be banned. There is zero evidence for this.

There is a big difference between banning what can only be described as a fake news outlet controlled by the adversary government of Qatar vs. banning the most important or second most important independent newspaper in the country.

When _that_ happens then the completely unjustified outrage in many comments here will be justified as that would indeed be an unprecedented step.
"We might agree to a cease-fire for a little bit, but I guarantee you will invade you soon anyway" is not exactly what I'd call good faith language. What's even the point of a cease-fire if you don't at least offer the possibility of something long-term? It's a completely absurd thing to say.

This has long been the problem, with the Israeli government never offering any perspective or hope on a long-term solution.
Kinda made me dizzy - animating the whole panel with all that stuff (clock, etc) can't be any good for accessibility, but no easy task to do a whole DE regardless.
We can do this as soon as 100% of cars are self-driving and we can write software that is 100% reliable. How long can that take?
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alankay
That's correct and IMHO its the right thing to do when shooting begins because when people shoot each other this is no longer a discussion and the press is part of the warfare. Remember all the Russian media and social media accounts claiming that its American hysteria that they will invade Ukraine? They denied and mocked anyone who claimed that they will invade up until the tanks rolled in.

Personally, I'm critical of the Israeli government but I think it's in their right to try to control information flow as they are in process of driving people from their homes and mass killing people in retaliation of a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of over thousand innocent people.

I really dislike glorification war and pretending that it has rules or honour or something like that. People are taking lives en masse and its more than normal to try to control the information flow when doing it.
This belief right here is why the USA continues to play world cop (which is actually a colonization effort dressed up for the modern age). Why USA? Because it is the new empire and the new of the anglosphere.
There might be good reasons for not printing them on signs, but this reason seems dumb.

Around here (Melbourne, Australia) I don't think they are ever used. "Princes St" etc. It's fine.
The first half of your comment is fascinating and sounds entirely plausible. At first glance.

The second half contains emotion which makes clear where your heart is on this. So, that casts a shadow of doubt.

Could it be that there is credibility to your point but not to such an extreme extent where it’s like this deliberate conspiracy? I mean, as soon as everyone finds out, then this would actually be kind of a dumb plan on their part. The Arabic audience can inform the English audience of the discrepancy and vice versa. What if it’s not a conspiracy but a consequence of a large organization containing a blend of biased opinionated departments? Some more focused on journalism, and some on catering to local audiences’ tastes. That would make more sense to me, along with the typical biases of all news-media orgs everywhere in the world..
Well it’s not like the skies are saturated with UFOs.

And it’s also not like there’s much to gain for pilots to file reports like this and single themselves out.

But there’s enough smoke to make me wonder where the fire is
'Retailers jacked up prices and squeezed consumers. They might have just blinked
"A slew of retailers in recent weeks have announced price cuts as they strive to pull consumers into stores..."
The reader should take note that when those celebrating "the only democracy in the Middle East" shutting down a news organization, and blocking Israelis from accessing their web site - when they talk about Hamas and the political influence of Qatar - remember that Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar weeks before October 7 to encourage them to send money to Hamas ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q... ). He did this because the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank was making peaceful, political headway in getting Palestine internationally recognized.
The bollards were right in the middle of the cycle path?!? Yeah that's some shitty placement that's gonna endanger the cyclist by shoving them out into traffic.
>Up to 2019, there are some studies that clearly show that the VAERS data underestimates the bad side effects of (some) vaccines, up to a factor of 100.

You mean before vaccines became extremely politicized? I think we can safely assume those numbers aren't useful anymore now that the well has been poisoned.

>But this has to be objectively studied.

There were plenty of double blind studies on the covid vaccines. Those are the gold standard. I'm not even sure what you are asking for here.
> Some bollards are even soft so that they can be driven over without damage to either party.

That's not a bollard. I'm assuming you're thinking of flex posts, or how some of us call them, car ticklers.
The Manhattan Project was notoriously wasteful, in the heady WWII rush to defeat the Axis. Congress approved any and every budget request with little oversight, and the project's secrecy ensured almost total lack of accountability. Some of the most notable offenders are considered to be the roughly 3% of the budget that was dedicated to the HPD --the Hats Procurement Department-- at Oppenheimer's personal request. Another ~4% of the total budget was for the AOACD --the Acronyms and Other Abbreviations Coordination Department-- though they earned their worth when they delivered the mission-critical PLSF and TSR/Em in record time.
In most of the world outside of the United States, there are laws that relate to the concept of a "defensive democracy". For example the laws that outlaw display of swastikas in Germany are contradictory with freedom of speech but are aimed at denying a democracy being exploited by extreme groups (see ww2).

The discussion here is about the actions of Israel versus Al Jazeera, not a possibility of banning Al Jazeera in the United States or maybe Israeli viewpoints.

Also, I am pretty sure Israeli spendings to push Israeli narratives in the US are minuscule, especially compared to Qatar's.
Which Arab countries?
You might just be gifted with great memory. I‘m not sure working memory can really be trained in a significant way. Happy to be proven wrong of course.
> the original argument was about the claim that a tenant wanting to renew a lease is unilaterally changing the agreement with the landlord.

No, the argument was that the tenant that refuses to move out when the landlord does not want to rent to them anymore, after the original contract has expired, unless the landlord pays them off, is unilaterally changing the agreement with the landlord.
> Because the Holocaust can refer to either the Nazi's genocide of Jews or all the genocides carried out by Nazi Germany. Most often it is the former.

This is not counting all the genocides by the Nazis. This is just counting the people murdered in the extermination camps and on their way there.

If you count all the other Nazi genocides you get tens of millions, e.g. targeting of civilians during the Siege of Lenin Grad, the Dutch Famine, etc.
I never said that. Go back and read closely.

The obviously-too-low speed limits cause all speed limits to be called into question. Thus, Americans drive about 10 mph over the limit on suburban roads, where lots of fatalities occur, and the opinion that speed limits are too low is very common. Also, significant data exists that shows that the vast majority of fatalities involve a driver that is speeding.
> Colombia nation cuts ties with Israel

Ukraine has cut diplomatic ties with Russia; the Baltic states have gone almost as far [1]. That doesn't mean they deny Russia's legitimacy as a state.

There has been zero change in recognition of Israel since October 7 [2]. (Belize and Bolivia also severed relations, by the way. And Turkey stopped trading. But again, very different from disagreement and denying legitimacy, and why I said practically zero diplomatic consequences, a threshold much lower than loss of legitimacy.)

> more than enough evidence that israel is losing legitimacy

Open to being convinced, but do you have a source?

> I've never seen such insane amount of regular folks, from diverse backgrounds and political affiliations, who fearlessly speak truth about israel

Plenty of batshit crazy stuff seems widespread on the internet.

> they fear losing legitimacy

Sure. They should. America fears China annexing Taiwan; that isn't evidence it's happening.

> dictators in the middle east, who are puppets of the US and Israel, are fearing of losing their own legitimacy

The ones who helped Israel repel Iran's attack?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-blames-baltic-co...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_I...
The furthest back reference I can find for this story is https://softpanorama.org/People/Knuth/index.shtml

However, Knuth refuted it. "My program didn't work the first time" https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
Jack Dorsey no longer on the board of Bluesky
Love it! Yeah great idea!
It's not the new contributors you have to watch, it's the sleeper contributor who has built up a solid reputation and then is "activated". At least that's how I understand XZ.
This is not purposefully, Arabic is the main language of the people living in the regions, the Arabs. Just because they're catering to that out and giving news accordingly to the local demographics, bringing speakers from there doesn't make it their viewpoints. If you want to accuse someone of pushing agenda then Western media outlets and outlets that pushed the "40 babies beheading" stories is more factual.
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Will do, and thanks for the tip! The more you know! ;)
Seems we collectively forgot about IE era.
This seems to be quoting from
https://softpanorama.org/People/Knuth/index.shtml

> When I was at Stanford with the AI project [in the late 1960s] one of the things we used to do every Thanksgiving is have a computer programming contest with people on research projects in the Bay area. The prize I think was a turkey.

> [John] McCarthy used to make up the problems. The one year that Knuth entered this, he won both the fastest time getting the program running and he also won the fastest execution of the algorithm. He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system. And he basically beat the shit out of everyone.

> And they asked him, "How could you possibly do this?" And he answered,

> "When I learned to program, you were lucky if you got five minutes with the machine a day. If you wanted to get the program going, it just had to be written right. So people just learned to program like it was carving stone. You sort of have to sidle up to it. That's how I learned to program."
That's a mischaracterization. No one is _for_ inequality. The opposition you speak of is _for_ race/gender blind meritocracy. Anyone with a little knowledge of economics understands that groups of people cut across any dimension will always have different outcomes; Russian Americans earn more than French Americans, Japanese Americans earn more than Fillipino Americans, taller people earn more than shorter people, etc.

No one thinks inequality is desirable. The opposition you speak of think it's unavoidable. And bad public policy will have effects that make the situation worse for everyone.
Are there more conventional (non 2d) reversible languages?
It's a good thing that the pedestrian fatalities you are trying to cite very often happen due to someone speeding (that is a fact that you can corroborate with police data if you would like). If people don't obey a speed limit, you can't cite a consequence of their driving speed to say that the limit is too high.

Also, I have exactly as much data as everyone else is bringing to this discussion, including you and the GP comment, who have brought no relevant data either. This is just my opinion.
This looks very badly sourced.
It’s both. The fact that one happened recently does not preclude the other.
> As a non-white immigrant, I’m deeply suspicious of the notion that a team with me on it is in any way different than a team without me on it based on my skin color or ethnicity. I think that line of thinking doesn’t go anywhere good, especially for me, but for everyone else too.

In various threads you've repeatedly argued (paraphrasing here) that you have a different set of values — e.g., giving higher priority to the family and community, vice individual choice, than in contemporary American mass culture. You've correlated this with your Bangladeshi heritage and upbringing, and you've said (again paraphrasing) that you adamantly seek to instill the same values in your own kids.

Perhaps some teams would find your values a useful addition to their mix. For those teams, your Bangladeshi name, skin tone, etc., could be instances of what the late (Black) free-market economist Walter Williams [0] referred to as "cheap-to-observe information."[1] I can't find the piece I read years ago in which Williams said that if you were choosing up sides for a pickup basketball game at a city park, and didn't know any of the other players, you'd choose the Black guys because the odds — not a certainty by any means, but the odds — were that the Black guys had played more basketball growing up than the white guys.

A related anecdote about cheap-to-observe information and its possible correlations: Years ago at my then-law firm, I was called into the office of the chair of the recruiting committee. The chair wanted me to meet a third-year law student who was at the firm for interviews. The recruiting chair said that the law student, like me, was a former Navy "nuke" officer. We shook hands; I asked, "[chief] engineer-qualified?" He smiled and nodded. "Surface-warfare qualified?" The same. I turned to the recruiting chair and said "that's all I need to know; I'm good." I had both quals myself, so I immediately concluded — provisionally — that the student was very likely to have personal qualities (work ethic, leadership, etc.) that I knew law firms found to be valuable. (I did stick around to chat for a while longer, and I knew the student wouldn't even have been invited for an interview if he wasn't already a good candidate.) We hired the student, who turned out to be a fine lawyer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_E._Williams

[1] https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/opinion/walter-williams-our...
Please, the United States has a universal history of promoting freedom, democracy, and human rights far better than autocracies.

They literally fended off communism and stalinism.

Its really easy to make grand claims when you are Iceland.
It doesn't even have to be a server like ssh. It could be a client side project engineered to somehow deliver all your ssh keys or bitcoin wallets. There is no reason backdoors couldn't stealthily phone home from client side applications.
> when I advocate for basic respect and decency

Try using those words instead of the woke buzzwords. Everyone else is having the same reaction to "DEI"/etc that you're having to their common arguments.
Can you please provide links?

It's hard for me to believe that your "Arabic" version is genuine. But if that's just me being naive, then I'd like to understand the truth, but I need actual evidence for that.

So if there are genuine headlines like that on Al Jazeera, it should be trivial for you to provide a couple of representative links that we can run through Google Translate to verify?
>Yes, the Soviets were excluded.

>>The double think is so strong that you can have two people from the same village, in the same camp, dead on the same day and have one be a victim of the holocaust, and the other not just because one was a Jew and the other a Communist.

Or to put it another way. If Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were both captured by time traveling Nazis and sent to Treblinka Marx would count towards the holocaust and Engels would not in the Wests version of holocaust denial.
If only cars weren't gigantic, oversized killing buckets...

NotJustBikes just posted another video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbnBc-97Ps) about the speed limit but touching on the same issue - less speed x less mass = safer environment -> less need for physical barriers (they even removed some street lights). Honestly, there wouldn't be that much need for bollard is majority of cars would be city-car like the one in 4:39 min (https://youtu.be/JRbnBc-97Ps?t=279)
That first image is from this junction[1] in Singapore.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cwAerb4uPN4KD6sR7
Flexibility of Plang Programming Language
There's this ancient Roman story about unbreakable glass in Petronius' Satyricon:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology...
It's part of the EU sanctions, EU ISPs are required to block certain Russian sites. But they didn't specify how, that's left up to the countries to figure out afaik. But as you say, some of the what has been done barely qualifies.

Here's my personal experience with this:

Germany does exactly what you describe, the bare minimum to say "we're blocking" --- DNS omitting certain sites.

Spain is doing deep packet inspection, blocking DNS requests that lookup RT, so DNS over HTTPS or through a VPN is a must. Additionally, they're also reading the SNI in TLS requests and blocking that way. If you try accessing RT in pure unencrypted HTTP you're get some fortigate blocking message back.
It's certainly not true for the "authorities" in question here. Meaning, they indeed aren't "authoritative", as you would have it.

You essentially refuse to seriously check for that. I guess, because you have so little confidence in what your peers would do if they found out?

Authoritativeness isn't reliably conveyed ex officio. Putting your head in the sand isn't a solution for that.
If worded in a way to prevent outright calls to violence, then yes.
>BTW both have very high standards and make excellent journalism.

With respect to everything except the middle east.

I won't deny that they have generally good coverage on many subjects, but the nuance is that they leverage / launder that credibility towards advancing the state aims of Qatar whenever needed.

And as OP mentioned, if you look up how AJ covers a topic in English and how they cover it in Arabic, it's wildly different.
non paywall version: https://archive.fo/lgtyM

from what I can see it never mentioned Israel directly giving money to Hamas. But encouraging payments seems close enough.
Perhaps this is a system to weed-out applicants who aren't detail oriented?

Looks like they got at least one.
I've never thought about in my life. Now that I have read about it, I'm probably going to notice them everywhere.

It seems like a remarkably simple technology that saves lives.
> What's even the point of a cease-fire if you don't at least offer the possibility of something long-term?

To get aid to civilians. To let fighters regroup and restock. To open a window for negotiating a permanent ceasefire.

I can't think of an example of a permanent cease fire being immediately agreed without surrender or withdrawal.
Discussion [0] (39 points, 6 days ago, 174 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40207981
New DDG app.
Constraints (to the degree they are not debilitating) can trigger creativity, unlock efficiency and sharpen problem solving skills.

Abundance is better than scarcity but it can lead to bloat and waste. With strong discipline and a value system that promotes lean approaches one might be able to have the best of the two worlds.
That’s a nice idea but it would require a lot of elements to work in perfect synchrony to be really safe and reliable. In the foreseeable future, probably easier just to put physical bollards in.

Your comment reminds me of a funny aside in Arthur C Clarke’s The Fountains of Paradise (wonderful novel, about the construction of a space elevator). A famous architect, designing the world’s longest and highest bridge, fights to avoid putting guard rails along the sides. His justification is a) cars are all computer-controlled and totally reliable in the book’s setting, so rails are unnecessary; some suspect it’s actually b) the bridge will look nicer without guard rails; or even darker, c) if a car does somehow go off-course, he’d prefer it doesn’t damage the bridge before plummeting half a mile into the sea.
I have spent one year growing vegetables in my garden and observing the slow growth of the plants, and it was one of the most amazing and humbling experiences I've ever experienced, the dance of the insects around the plants, the ants the pollinators, the bees, the spiders who trapped and ate the insects, the insects of the soil all worked in a quite fashioned harmony, it seemed impossible that the plants could grow without the insects, as though the plants are the buildings of a city and the insects its inhabitants.
A Compare and Contrast: 21 and Almost 55
100% my experience. You would need a combination of the right project for the right client where the affect on bottom line is both observable and observed.

Most of companies who are considering a consultant are organizationally incapable of telling you how much money is saved or generated. On the other hand, most companies have a sense for how much an hour of work should cost and would be comfortable discussing the project in those terms. So you'd seriously be limiting your options if you focused on the former.
The fact that the Cray XD1 used AMD chips is well documented, but I'm not sure why that's even relevant, or why you feel the need to insult my knowledge.

Increasing competition is the best way to help the consumer. I think leveling the playing field increases competition and is the best way to help the consumer. I don't know why you think I'm a communist simply because I think there's anticompetitive behavior going on.

Take CPUs. Between AMD and Intel, I have to pick a motherboard that supports one or the other. This fantasy world I'm pushing would say hey you two, make a standard that both of you can agree on, so that one motherboard can have either an AMD or Intel CPU. I don't know what's communist about that. That then lets Transmeta and other players actually compete, reduces e-waste, and lets consumers decide for themselves. In my mind, setting and enforcing standards and limiting the amount of vertical monopolizing that can happen increases competition, and doesn't put you on a train to Siberia.

Why were Oracle (I used to work there) and Sun even competitors? They're both so monstrously big that they had overlap, and so they were, but Oracle is known for its database software, and Sun is known for its hardware. In my fantasy world, Sun would never have competed with Oracle. Oracle would have competed with Sybase to see who could write better database software, and Sun would have competed with HP and Dell to see who could make better hardware. IBM would be split into a bunch of smaller companies that competed in each area, instead of being the monstrosity that it was and is today.

Still don't see how that makes me a communist.
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